Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 rumoured to outperform Snapdragon 8 Elite by a wide margin in early benchmark leak
The launch of Qualcomm's true next-generation flagship chipset is rumoured to be a way off. Based on recent rumours, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 will not officially debut until the autumn with September touted as a launch month. Nonetheless, Digital Chat Station continues to drip feed information about the chipset on Chinese social media.
To recap, the leaker previously reported that Qualcomm had turned to TSMC's N3P nodes for the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, which should be more efficient than the N3E node that underpins the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Now, the same account claims to have learned that the chipset will ship with an Adreno 840 GPU, plus two prime and six performance CPU cores presumably based on Qualcomm's next-generation Oryon architecture.
Digital Chat Station adds that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will also support ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension 1 (SME 1) and Scalable Vector Extension 2 (SVE2) for improved machine learning capabilities. If true, this would mean that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 leverages the Armv9 architecture; the Snapdragon 8 Elite uses the older Armv8 architecture.
Apparently, these changes will result in the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 pushing past 3.8 million points in AnTuTu V10. For context, the Snapdragon 8 Elite has achieved a median of 2.6 million in our tests to date from the ROG Phone 9 Pro, OnePlus 13 and Nubia Z70 Ultra (curr. $769 on Amazon), among others. Conversely, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Reference Device clocked 3 million in AnTuTu V10. Even assuming Digital Chat Station is referring to a reference device, 3.8 million would represent a 26% improvement between generations.
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Digital Chat Station (1) (2) via Android Authority & GSMArena
